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Short Writing Activities

For all writing activities, you can type your answer directly in the space provided or, to work more effectively, you may want to write in your word processing program and cut-and-paste into the box. Your writing can exceed the size of the box.

1 .
Use APA guidelines to put together a References list containing three books, three journal articles, and three on-line sources on attention deficit disorder.

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

2 .
Use MLA guidelines to put together a Works Cited list containing three books, three journal articles, and three on-line sources on Shakespeare's King Lear.

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

3 .
Rewrite the following presentation of hypothetical statistics: The U.S. Defense Department reported the cost of a hammer as $254 (1993). Three years later, the cost of a comparable hammer was $817. It projects that by 2003, the cost of a hammer will triple again.

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

4 .
Write a paragraph in which you plagiarize material from Camille Paglia's "Rape: A Bigger Danger than Feminists Know"; then revise the paragraph to include proper integration and citation.

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type at the beginning of the paragraph, and at the end.

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